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Re:Ask HN: Navigating activist tech organizations during a j... by tacostakohashi on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @05:44PM (#30608332)
Performative social justice is required by society and the market - investors, clients, prospective employees.

For this reason, you won't really find a way to escape it in the long run, and you may as well just drink the kool-aid and get good at it. It is, as you say, performative, so you don't need to agree with it nor expend substantial effort, and it's totally ok, expected even, that you find some causes you happen to agree with, or treat it primarily as a social event.

Any company/management who is not currently playing along will eventually have new owners/management installed that play this game.

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Re:Ask HN: Navigating activist tech organizations during a j... by awb on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:14PM (#30608669)
At the good companies I've worked with owners and management are laser focused on the product, the market and scaling their team.

I've worked at a couple bad ones though where I agree the ownership can lose focus and bring up politics too much.

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